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The Discontinuous History of Imperial Panegyric in Byzantium and its Reinvention by Michael Psellos

Anthony Kaldellis

Greek, roman and byzantine studies , 2019

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The Discontinuous History of Imperial Panegyric in Byzantium and its Reinvention by Michael Psellos

Anthony Kaldellis

The late antique tradition of panegyrics to the emperor lapsed during the seventh to tenth centuries, when such speeches are not attested directly or indirectly; this ceremonial practice was revived by Psellos in the eleventh century.

Greek, roman and byzantine studies , 2019

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The Textual Sources for the Peloponnese, A.D. 582–959: Their Creative Engagement with Ancient Literature

Ilias Anagnostakis,Anthony Kaldellis

Both classical authors and contemporary political agendas have shaped several of the tenth-century accounts about the recent Peloponnesus, and this recommends that historians be cautious in exploiting their testimony.

Greek, roman and byzantine studies , 2014

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The Date of Laonikos Chalkokondyles’ Histories

Anthony Kaldellis

No event known to Laonikos need be dated later than ca. 1464, and the terminus ante quem is 1468: writing some 25 years earlier than has been thought, he is the first of the extant historians of the Fall, as well as the one who says the most about Ottoman... see more

Greek, roman and byzantine studies , 2012

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The Interpolations in the Histories of Laonikos Chalkokondyles

Anthony Kaldellis

Passages in Book 9 that are shown by style and vocabulary to be interpolated contain detailed information on the last rulers of Trebizond; they derive from 1460–1470s Constantinople and the circle of Georgios Amiroutzes and Demetrios Angelos.

Greek, roman and byzantine studies , 2012

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The Greek Sources of Laonikos Chalkokondyles’ Histories

Anthony Kaldellis

Laonikos cannot be shown to have used any of the written Greek sources that have been proposed: he relied instead largely on oral information, to which the circles in which he moved gave him wide access.

Greek, roman and byzantine studies , 2012

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The Date and Structure of Prokopios’ Secret History and His Projected Work on Church History

Anthony Kaldellis

Procopius finished the Secret History, which includes an addendum, in 550/1, and his system of cross-references suggests the scope of an Ecclesiastical History that he never completed.

Greek, roman and byzantine studies , 2009

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Christodoros on the Statues of the Zeuxippos Baths: A New Reading of the Ekphrasis

Anthony Kaldellis

Stressing that the statues require explication, the poet emphasizes Homeric themes and the Roman origins of Byzantium; his themes and inventions compromise modern attempts to reconstruct the collection.

Greek, roman and byzantine studies , 2007

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The Works and Days of Hesychios the Illoustrios of Miletos

Anthony Kaldellis

A full assessment of the evidence on the historian Hesychios of Miletus points to his being a pagan with antiquarian interests, like several other writers in the age of Justinian.

Greek, roman and byzantine studies , 2005

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